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and made a sudden removal when shouted to hy our donkey 

 boys ; and a sohtary crocodile, dead as the nails that pinned it 

 to the front wall of the hotel at Luxor. Yes ; but what about 

 snakes ? Well, madam, it was winter, and they were too sleepy 

 to put in an appearance, although one member of our party — an 

 American lady — searched for them as diligently as ever woman 

 looked under couch for burglars. A Swedish doctor spared no 

 pains to prove to her that there were snakes in abundance in 

 Egypt as recently as 3,000 years ago, and he never failed to 

 point them out —stretched on the walls of the tombs of the 

 Eameses. 



A series of sketches and photographs were then thrown on 

 the screen, and the scenes depicted were racily described by Mr. 

 Whittaker, whose remarks were interwoven with many humorous 

 points, which were readily taken up by the audience. Com- 

 mencing with the Grand Square at Alexandria, he carried his 

 audience over the principal sights on his month's tour, which 

 embraced many of the most picturesque and historically-interest- 

 ing scenes in Egypt. 



ANONYMOUS PAPERS. 



These were four in number, the titles were as follows : — 



1. The Queen's English and the Lancashire Dialect. 



2. Another Carnac. 3. The Income Tax. 4. Burnley, 



a Poet's Centre. 



1. The writer of this paper submitted that " dialects " (not 

 merely that of our own county, but of other counties) should be 

 discoiiraged both in schools and societies whose office it is to 

 teach. He believed that the vigour of the Lancashire dialect 

 was to be found in the domain of physical strength, rather than 

 in the more elevated feelings of our nature. 



2. Tn this paper was given a graphic description of the 

 Breton Carnac — " a collection of stone monuments, interesting 

 not so much for their size as for their number, the memorial of 

 a people of whom we know but little, and who have not left on 

 these stones any distinct token of their life or history." The 

 whole of Brittany is covered with what, for a better nomencla- 

 ture, we call Druidical remains, but in no jjart of the province 

 are the rude stone remains more remarkable or more numerous 

 than in the department of Morbihan. At Carnac the lines of 

 stone radiate from an artificial mound known as Mont St. Michel. 

 There are thirteen rows of stones, the distance between each is 



